11. Programs: Easy backups with "Clonezilla"

There is an ISO of a tool that lets you do easy backups. It has newb friendly options and you can make a backup with minimal knowledge, but it also has advanced functions. I use it regularly.

It saves your partitions, filesystems, and contents of the partitions and saves these things into a place where you want to. You can later use that backup to restore your system.

If you are a Linux or BSD newb you will break the system many times and it may save you lots of time that you would otherwise use to reinstall everything manually and pray that you remember your entire config. I suffered it a few times, and I make them regularly in case I destroy my configs or whatever else happens in a way that I cannot figure out what needs fixing - so I go the easy route and roll back to the most recent backup.

When you use a backup it would be exactly the same as when it was during the making of the backup.

When you want to get Clonezilla you download an ISO and flash it onto your USB - or even easier you drop that ISO onto your Ventoy.